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Make: Korth
Model: PRS
Caliber: .45ACP
Location (city or county): San Jose
Price: SPF
Will ship (Y/N): N, Off Roster
Other info:
Hi There.
I have a real unicorn for sale - the Korth PRS. For those of you unfamiliar with Korth, they make extremely high end revolvers. The Rolls Royce of revolvers if you will. Their revolvers typically start at around $6K and go up from there. The reason it is so expensive is that Korth boasts that the gun is hand crafted from "tool steel" with an incredible hardness rating of 60 Rockwell (C). It's like making the entire gun from 4150 barrel steel.
The PRS is Korth's semiautomatic "1911 style" pistol introduced at SHOT show 2015. While it may look like a 1911, there is a night and day difference in how it works. Most modern pistols today use a variation of a Browning's original tilting barrel system. The barrel is locked with the slide until it recoils a short distance backwards and then some kind of mechanism pulls the barrel downwards to unlock it from the slide. Whether you are talking about the "swing link" in a 1911, or the "locking block" on the Beretta 92, or the "kidney bean" cutout introduced by Walther they all tilt the barrel downwards to unlock. The disadvantage to this system is that you loose accuracy as the barrel moves in several dimensions (backwards and downwards).
With the PRS Korth sought to make the most accurate semi-automatic pistol that it could. So they looked at a german gun innovation that has proven the test of time -- the delayed blowback roller lock. This is the system used in HK rifles including the MP5. A pair of rollers or wheels keep the barrel locked to the slide until it moves backwards a short distance. At this point the rollers unlock and allow the barrel to slide back and eject the spent cartridge. Unlike most other modern pistols, the PRS barrel moves in only 1 dimension, straight back. a barrel that only moves in 1 dimension with no other vertical movement equals extreme accuracy.
Here is a picture of the rollers from Korth's PRS promotional video. Notice the roller near the top of the actual bullet. Full video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wfuGW3xa5o
and a couple more pictures of the internal mechanism courtesy of Calgun's member "sidelock" who took these at SHOT 2015
Here you can see the entire barrel assembly moves only forwards and backwards in one dimension, riding on the frame of the gun
Ok onto the actual gun being sold. Complete with all original case, paperwork, tools, and accessories. Oops forgot to take a pic of the included goodies. they are underneath the foam. includes additional mainspring (for lighter weight cartridges), manual, cleaning tool, disassembly tool, Korth pin, and various other misc stuff.
Shown here with the Rolls Royce of revolvers, the Korth Combat (not for sale).
I suspect that very few PRS have been brought into the country, probably less than 30. Your chance to own a very high end gun with a unique working mechanism.
Model: PRS
Caliber: .45ACP
Location (city or county): San Jose
Price: SPF
Will ship (Y/N): N, Off Roster
Other info:
Hi There.
I have a real unicorn for sale - the Korth PRS. For those of you unfamiliar with Korth, they make extremely high end revolvers. The Rolls Royce of revolvers if you will. Their revolvers typically start at around $6K and go up from there. The reason it is so expensive is that Korth boasts that the gun is hand crafted from "tool steel" with an incredible hardness rating of 60 Rockwell (C). It's like making the entire gun from 4150 barrel steel.
The PRS is Korth's semiautomatic "1911 style" pistol introduced at SHOT show 2015. While it may look like a 1911, there is a night and day difference in how it works. Most modern pistols today use a variation of a Browning's original tilting barrel system. The barrel is locked with the slide until it recoils a short distance backwards and then some kind of mechanism pulls the barrel downwards to unlock it from the slide. Whether you are talking about the "swing link" in a 1911, or the "locking block" on the Beretta 92, or the "kidney bean" cutout introduced by Walther they all tilt the barrel downwards to unlock. The disadvantage to this system is that you loose accuracy as the barrel moves in several dimensions (backwards and downwards).
With the PRS Korth sought to make the most accurate semi-automatic pistol that it could. So they looked at a german gun innovation that has proven the test of time -- the delayed blowback roller lock. This is the system used in HK rifles including the MP5. A pair of rollers or wheels keep the barrel locked to the slide until it moves backwards a short distance. At this point the rollers unlock and allow the barrel to slide back and eject the spent cartridge. Unlike most other modern pistols, the PRS barrel moves in only 1 dimension, straight back. a barrel that only moves in 1 dimension with no other vertical movement equals extreme accuracy.
Here is a picture of the rollers from Korth's PRS promotional video. Notice the roller near the top of the actual bullet. Full video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wfuGW3xa5o
and a couple more pictures of the internal mechanism courtesy of Calgun's member "sidelock" who took these at SHOT 2015
Here you can see the entire barrel assembly moves only forwards and backwards in one dimension, riding on the frame of the gun
Ok onto the actual gun being sold. Complete with all original case, paperwork, tools, and accessories. Oops forgot to take a pic of the included goodies. they are underneath the foam. includes additional mainspring (for lighter weight cartridges), manual, cleaning tool, disassembly tool, Korth pin, and various other misc stuff.
Shown here with the Rolls Royce of revolvers, the Korth Combat (not for sale).
I suspect that very few PRS have been brought into the country, probably less than 30. Your chance to own a very high end gun with a unique working mechanism.
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